Reved Summer 2007

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different window sometimes and I’d recommend it, but I’m not giving away any secrets - for that, I would have to kill you (that saying is always funny). I would, however, like to offer what I can in terms of money tips that can help you save dough for that sunny day and now seems like as good a time as any to start a new column entitled How Cheap Can You Get? (Look inside REVED for money-saving techniques that will change your life!) Or maybe you just want to stay at home? And that’s okay. Traveling can be a nasty harbinger of what’s to come: you’ll meet people from all over and the next thing you know, you’ll just want to visit them in their exotic locals and, crap, that means more money! I thought if I traveled enough in my twenties, I’d get it out of my system, but it doesn’t work that way. You end up seeing enough to fill books and then you want to start writing them. >>>

it just me, or is Revelstoke kicking into another gear these days? We’ve got the new Gallery of the Selkirks on Orton Ave; new bike shops, book stores and restaurants. Under new management, the Visual Arts Centre is going off with exhibitions, live music and presentations and the Revelstoke Museum and Archives held a great opening for the Mount Begbie Ascent Centennial. Otesha, a youth traveling bike tour brought us some environmentalawareness in the form of a hilarious play (see otesha.ca); enough voices stopped a major road through the Greenbelt and the day a lot of Revelstokian’s have been anticipating draws near as the bee hive burner goes down, baby! These are all great things. Ahhh, Revelstoke – small enough to worry about running into your doctor on the street, but big enough to move forward. >>> I find people like to ask how I can afford to travel so much. What the hell is your secret, they ask, do you have labs in your basement? sugar daddies? inherited wealth? Usually, I just answer yes to stop the guesswork, even though in theory, sugar daddies creep me out. But the truth is, I just don’t know. It’s like anything, I guess, if it’s important enough, you find a way. I cringe at property taxes and triple-digit gas prices like everyone else, but, gosh darn-it, I just love seeing the view out a

I’d like to thank the following people for their help in putting this issue of REVED together: Denise King, Gabriella Draboczi, Sarah Newton, Melissa Hemphill and Shannon Robinson for their content and art contributions; Alice Weber, Joanne Stacey and Cecilia Lea for their editing skills and Ariane and Calvino Anderson for their help with ad sales and content. Thank you!

Artist in Profile:

Christa Duddy is on page 2

Emerging

What Matters..

by Heather Lea

Carsharing in Revelstoke If you thought you could raise over $5000 and then hand it all away to people who’s lives you could enrich but would never meet, would you do it? Eighteen year olds, Cali Olleck and Jillian Brownlee did without a second thought. After listening to a motivational speaker with Free the Children talk at Revelstoke Secondary School, Cali got to thinking. She then partnered up with her friend Jillian and together, the two girls read through the Free the Children website. “The website showed us what money could buy what,” says Jillian, “$50 would buy a goat and $5000 would buy a school.” The girls felt that reaching a goal of $5000 was attainable and opted for the province of Gansu, (population 26,000,000+) in northern China. Now the tough part begins; how to raise that much money? Some innovative cash-making techniques were thought up and with the help of Mount Begbie and Arrow Heights schools, the town of Revelstoke opened their wallets to fundraisers such as potlucks, garage sales and even a banana-eating contest between the students and the teachers. “The students won by, I think, two bananas,” laughs Cali adding that over ninety bananas were consumed between 5 students, “It was gross, people were throwing up and stuff.” There are few things worth getting sick on bananas for, but building a school that will educate children for years to come is definitely worthy. When asked if they ever felt like they

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might not reach the $5000 goal, Jillian says yes while breathing a sigh of relief, “Toward the end I thought it might not happen but then Cali planned the potluck and the Rec Centre and we got the rest of the money.” The potluck brought in a final $700, which topped donations over and above the initial goal, to $5500. Cali and Jillian hope to use the extra money to help furnish the school with necessary materials. So, what have you spent $5000 on lately?

Did you know?

in developing countries...

FREE!

• $1 buys $10 worth of medical supplies • $50 buys a goat, an alternative source of income for a poor family • $100 pays for a clean water program, on average per family cost based on average water program cost per community • $500 pays for a lunchtime feeding program in a primary school for one year • $1200 pays for the salary of a teacher in a primary school for one year • $5,000 pays for the construction of a school (source:www.freethechildren.com)

Carsharing is an idea of out Europe that has spread quickly across North America. Currently there are fifteen carshare cooperatives in Canada. Fifteen cities where you can be free of all the hassles of owning a vehicle, yet enjoy the freedom that driving offers! This spring Revelstoke became that 15th city! We have in our hot little hands (ok, it is in the driveway), a 2003 Toyota Echo! This baby can go 100 km on only 5 litres of fuel! Compare that to some SUV’s (Such Unsightly Vehicles) that need over fifteen litres to do the same distance. The Revelstoke Carshare Cooperative is a not for profit organization that is a branch of the Nelson Carshare Cooperative. Our members use an on-line booking service to reserve the Echo and pay a small user fee. Here is how the money pans out exactly: To join the Cooperative, a member pays a $500 share that is fully refundable if you choose to quit. Then each month there is a $4 administrative fee to cover costs related to bookkeeping and paperwork. Once you jump in the Echo you pay a $1.50/ hour rate (to a maximum of $15/day) and a 20 cent per kilometre rate. This is much cheaper than renting AND wait until you hear what that 20 cents gets you! It includes ICBC insurance, all vehicle maintenance, and the GAS! That’s right, you fuel up the vehicle and the carshare takes that amount off your monthly bill. It is estimated that the per km rate for owning a vehicle is 75 cents. If you drive 15,000 km a year, that’s $11, 250! Carshare saves you substantial amounts of money. In our household we walk to work and

Heather Lea editor@reved.net

by Sarah Newton

Shannon Robinson

WHAT’S IN THERE?

SUMMER 2007

only need a car for trips out of town. We were able to cancel our ICBC insurance when we joined the carshare, and we only book the car when we need it. Not only are we saving a lot of money, we walk and bike more without a vehicle in our driveway. As well, we don’t have the headache of worrying about maintenance and repair costs - the cooperative picks that up! We also feel good about the environment by joining the carshare! Less cars are being made and we are driving less. What if someone books the car when you need it? No problem, you take a taxi or rent a vehicle, whichever is cheaper, and you pay the carshare rate, the cooperative picks up the difference. The developed world has a love affair with the motorized vehicle, a love affair that is showing itself to be more and more dysfunctional. So break up with that bully in the driveway and find a new partner - one you get to share with others and one that doesn’t make you feel guilty or dirty. For more information on the Revelstoke Carshare Cooperative you can visit www.nelsoncar.com or contact Sarah Newton or Rory Luxmoore at 837-4290.

“Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It’s already tomorrow in Australia”. - (Charles Schultz)


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